PLATFORM : Gates Must Go After the killing of policewoman Tina Kerbrat, Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates made remarks that many Salvadorans find insulting. Among them was his labeling of the killer as "an El Savadoran drunk--a drunk who doesn't belong here." An editorial in LA OPINION, from which this is excerpted, calls for Gates' ouster

BOOK MARK : Ideas, Not Oil, Oftentimes Fuel Arab World Changes Albert Hourani, Albert Hourani, emeritus fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford, has also written "Europe and the Middle East.": In a sweeping chronicle of Arab civilization, the author argues that the same factors that kept certain Middle Eastern regimes stable in the 1970s--including powerful ideas--could be considered weaknesses today. An excerpt